A Poets View

This is an old recipe of my Moms’ which we used to make for the Holiday’s. Enjoy!

A. Ingredients
    a. 1 1/2 cubes butter
    b. 20 tbls. powdered sugar
    c. 8 tbls. cold water
    d. 2 1/2 cups flour
    e. 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts are best but you can use anything you like)
    f. 2 tsp. vanilla (you can also use rum to make it more festive)

B. Cooking Methods
    a. Cream butter, add sugar and water and cream thoroughly.
    b. Add remaining ingredients.
    c. Shape into balls (the size of golf balls) and bake in ungreased cookies sheet at 350 degree preheated oven until browned lightly on one side then turn over and brown the other side.
    d. Once they are browned remove them from the oven and while they are still hot roll them in the sifted powdered sugar until the sugar sticks to them and coats the entire butter ball then refrigirate.

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